Slayers Betrayed
Maliska: Here is a new fic about the Slayers. A dramatic all, angus tic one.
Ramon: And like the summary said, one of Linas friends is out to kill her. Who? Well just read the fic.
Sunny: And for last, the Slayers series doesn't belong to us.
-----
Chapter one
A 100 year ago a group on sorcerers specialized in dark magic, have join to release a demon, witch they believe to be invincible, and he was. The sorcerers wanted to use this demon to destroy their enemies. But the demon had a mind of his own, and disposes of the ones that sent him free. After that the demon begin to hunt other people, like if they were animals, for his own enjoyment. many try to kill this demon but they have all failed, and end up dead. When all look like it was lost, a swordsman and a sorcerer came and defeated the demon, the sorcerer had imprison him in a crystal ball, inside off a forbidden temple, after that the demon was never heard from again. Until today.
-----
Present day.
We find Lina and her friends heading to a small village called Vedras.
"Say Lina, why are we going to Vedras, again?" asked Gourry, and immediately received a punch from Lina.
"How many times must I tell you Gourry, you jellyfish brains?" asked Lina, almost shouting. "Someone in the Vedras village has sent me a letter, begging for my help, and……"
"You will help, has long you receive something in return" finished Zelgadiss, reading Lina's mind like a book.
"I must say that the one that had written this letter sounded like it was in a lot of trouble." Said Amelia reading the letter again.
"How can you say that just by reading the letter?" asked Zelgadiss turning to Amelia.
"It's because of the hand writing, it has the looks of being written in a lot of hurry."
"I'll say, I had problem on reading it my self." said Lina, remembering the first time she read that note.
"Ok, ok, then lets go already, the sooner we finish this, the sooner we go look for my cure." said Zelgadiss getting tire of this conversation.
And so they start walking to Vedras, but Gourry remain in the same place, rubbing the exact place were Lina had hit him, Lina had notice that and decided to check up on him.
"What's wrong Gourry?"
"It's noting, you just hit me hard this time…ouch." Responded Gourry, getting up to his feet.
"Oh come on Gourry! You've been hit even hard many times before, even much hard than this one. You're acting like a baby!" replied Lina.
Gourry glares at Lina. "But why do you always hit me, or even insulting me? I can't even say anything because of the fear that you would, or punch me or throwing a fireball at me. And I'm getting sick of it Lina! You treat me below dog!" Gourry replies back with an angry look in his eyes, a look that Lina had never saw before.
"Gourry………" said Lina with her voice rising slightly. It is true that Lina is always hitting on him, but that never seemed to have buttered him before. She begins to feel a big weight on her heart when she heard Gourrys words. She wanted to cry, but her pride didn't let her. "If I'm such a pain in the neck, then WHY don't you just leave me?"
Lina begin to run back to Zel and Amelia, and walking in front, so that no one would see her tears. Amelia notice that Lina was emotionally hurt and she wanted to go and help her, but Zelgadiss had stopped her, saying that it's best to leave her alone, for now. Gourry have just walking near Amelia and Zel instead near Lina.
Lina sighed with great sadness, never in her life she thought that Gourry would act like that, he seemed…...so revolted. Is he finally fed of me and going to leave? Lina thought to herself, but she sock her head trying to remove those thoughts, but it might be true, after all, Gourry is the most loyal guy that Lina has ever meet, they had faced many battles together, and beat many foes by working has a team, but she treats him like dirt. She knows it is unfair for him, but she couldn't help it, her bad temper is much stronger than her. "I'll talk to him after this is over!" Lina thought to her self as she looked behind and saw that Gourry was walking behind Zel and Amelia, with his eyes closed, but with a serious and angry face. She had saw it once, when she faked her death in Seilune. She hates seeing that look on Gourry's face.
"Gourry……"
-----
After a few hours later the gang finally arrived to the city of Vedras. The city is deserted, there is no one at sight, and every place they look there was nothing but houses in ruins.
"There is no one here." said Zelgadiss. "This is practically a ghost town. Are you sure this is the right village Lina?"
"Of course I am! The address is right in the paper. I don't understand why would any one would call me here and then doesn't show up!"
"Hey guys, there is someone there!" yelled Amelia, pointing to a figure she saw. Zelgadiss also saw it and used his chimeras speed to catch the guy, witch he made it and brought him to the others.
"Please…….don't hurt me…….." begged the man, trembling in fear.
"Alright buster, some one has sent me a letter asking me for help. But now all I find is a ghost town. What the heck's going on?" demanded Lina.
"So you are Lina Inverse?" asked an old man with long hair, that walked to the gang. "My name is Taran, I was the one who sent you that letter."
"So what is the problem?" asked Lina.
"It's like this, a few mounts ago, a group of explorers have come to our village, they had come to explore a temple that exists up in that small hill." said Taran pointing to a small hill behind the village "we told to the explores that that temple was forbidden, that it exists a strong curse in there, but they didn't listen, and went to that temple anyway. Four days later they have return, but their eyes was glowing in red, like if some evil soul had possessed them, and unexpectedly they started to kidnap some of the people of our village, man, woman and even children, and took them back to the temple, and almost every day they come our village and kidnap some more people. And we don't know what they are doing to them."
"That's horrible!" said Amelia with her hand covering her mouth.
"But if this been happening for quite some mounts now, why didn't your people never try to escape?" asked Zelgadiss.
"We try, but ever time we try there is some magical force field that prevents us from running out of the village.!"
"Hum, it appears that who ever is behind all of this wants these people a lot for some reason" said Lina, very toughly. "Ok then, so you want me to rescue the ones that were kidnapped, right?"
"Yes please….." begged Taran "We are a poor people with out any money to pay you, but we have plenty and plenty of food! We promise a great feast if you succeed."
"I guess you people heard of my big appetite?" asked Lina, a little embraced "Ok then, lets go find those weird explorers, the soon as we finish them of, the soon we can eat!"
After this the gang were following Lina to the direction of the hill by they were stopped when they hit a wall, an invincible wall.
"What the heck is this?" asked Lina, rubbing her nose.
"It must be that force field that Taran told us about." said Zelgadiss "Looks like it also prevents anyone who enters the village to leave."
"What do we do now?" asked Amelia.
"I guess there is just one thing to do!" said Lina very firmly. "We just wait for the explorers to come and get some of the people here for their hideout"
"WHAT?" shouted Amelia, in a protesting tone.
"Thing about it Amelia! Those guys probably know some spell to open a door to get in the village, so we shall wait until they leave to get out and follow them. It is the best plan we have so far!"
"Well I guess…."
"But you are using my people……" Said Taran as he walked near the gang
"It's not like that" said Lina immediately "We are not going to sacrifice any one, so relax, they will all be save."
That at least relax Taran a bit and Lina notice that, that man must had suffered a lot during all this time, Lina thought. Then she turns her gaze to Gourry, she had been surprised to see that he didn't say anything, was he still angry at her?
"Hey Gourry, what's up, cat got your tongue? Dont' you have nothing to say?
"Why? So you can hit me again? No thanks!" said Gourry very coldly has he walked away from the group.
Amelia and Zel were surprised by Gourry's attitude; he had never been this way with Lina. He must be extremely angry at her for behaving like this.
And Lina was trying very hard not to cry.
"Gourry………."
To be Continue ……
Alandra. you people was not expecting this kind of fic, right?